EDPD 5021 Response to Intervention: How to Ensure Success With Effective Instruction and Intervention
As a result of this course, participants will develop skills and strategies to reach struggling learners. This course will cover important aspects of Response to Intervention models. Participants will develop methods of evaluating students and pinpointing areas of academic difficulties. Students will utilize "Multi-Tiered Systems of Supports" (Blackburn & Witzel, 2018) to identify struggling students and provide interventions before the application of special education services. Further, participants will develop strategies to explicitly guide student learning through a systematic approach. Participants will develop a "tool box" of interventions that are responsive to the needs of all students, but particularly the needs of struggling students. In the words of Fisher and Frey (2010), "Teaching every child is hard work. With that hard work, though, comes a group of learners who are prepared to participate in society. This learning occurs in the classrooms of well-prepared teachers who are undaunted by student learning variations because they believe that each child is an individual and that individual exhibits differences in growth due to many factors, including carefully selected instructional interventions." This course will have a direct impact upon student learning. Teachers will walk away with a process of intervention that will make them more purposeful and effective.